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Where Students Prepare to Flourish.

High School Expansion

High school is a meaningful season of growth, responsibility, identity, and preparation. Forest City Christian Academy is expanding into high school beginning with a founding 9th grade cohort for the 2026–2027 school year. This intentional launch allows students to begin their high school journey in a Christ-centered environment where they are known, challenged, guided, and prepared for their next step. Serving families throughout Forest City, Apopka, Altamonte Springs, Orlando, and Central Florida, FCCA is building a high school experience rooted in faith, excellence, service, integrity, and purpose.

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Students in this stage are building:

  • Academic readiness.
  • Study habits and responsibility.
  • Critical thinking.
  • Clear communication.
  • Personal discipline.
  • Spiritual ownership.
  • Character and integrity.
  • Leadership and service.
  • Healthy decision-making.
  • Future planning.
  • Confidence for the next educational step.

High School Expansion at FCCA

FCCA's high school expansion is beginning with purpose. For the 2026–2027 school year, FCCA will launch Grade 9 with a founding cohort of approximately 12 students. This first group of students will have the unique opportunity to help shape the culture, expectations, leadership, and spirit of FCCA's high school experience from the beginning. In the 2027–2028 school year, FCCA plans to offer full-size classrooms for Grades 9 and 10, with the goal of serving approximately 22 students per grade level.

This phased approach allows FCCA to grow intentionally while preserving what families value most:

  • Strong teacher connection.
  • Meaningful one-on-one support.
  • Christ-centered guidance.
  • Academic preparation.
  • Leadership development.
  • A school culture where students are known.

The goal is not simply to add grade levels. The goal is to build a high school experience that reflects the mission, values, and student-centered culture of FCCA.

The Purpose of Flourish

The Flourish stage is where students begin applying what they have built throughout their journey with greater maturity, ownership, and purpose. As FCCA expands into high school, students will be guided to strengthen academic readiness, deepen personal faith, develop leadership, and prepare confidently for their next educational step.

This stage is designed to help students grow in:

  • Academic readiness.
  • Study habits and responsibility.
  • Critical thinking.
  • Clear communication.
  • Personal discipline.
  • Spiritual ownership.
  • Character and integrity.
  • Leadership and service.
  • Healthy decision-making.
  • Future planning.
  • Confidence for the next educational step.

Flourishing is not about having everything figured out. It is about becoming rooted, prepared, and purposeful.

A Christ-Centered High School Experience

FCCA is a Christ-centered private Christian school rooted in Seventh-day Adventist Education values and Bible principles. In the Flourish stage, students are encouraged to connect faith with identity, choices, goals, relationships, leadership, academics, and service. They are invited to ask deeper questions: Who is God calling me to become? How do I use my gifts responsibly? What kind of influence do I want to have? How do I make wise choices when no one is watching? How does my faith shape my future? At FCCA, students are not expected to navigate these questions alone. Through Bible learning, worship, prayer, classroom discipleship, teacher mentorship, service opportunities, athletics, and meaningful relationships, students are guided to develop a faith that is personal, practical, and strong enough to shape real life.

A Founding Opportunity

Families considering Grade 9 at FCCA have the opportunity to be part of something meaningful from the beginning. The founding 9th grade cohort will not simply attend a new program. They will help shape it. These students will help establish the tone, culture, leadership expectations, and spiritual foundation of FCCA's high school experience. They will have opportunities to lead with humility, serve with purpose, pursue excellence, and model the kind of character FCCA wants future high school students to follow. Students benefit from strong teacher connection, personal support, and meaningful opportunities to grow as leaders. This is an important step in FCCA's journey. And for the right family, it can be an important step in their child's journey as well.

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What the founding cohort will experience:

  • Strong teacher connection.
  • Meaningful one-on-one support.
  • Christ-centered guidance.
  • Academic preparation.
  • Leadership development.
  • A school culture where students are known.

What Students Experience

01

High School-Level Academic Responsibility

Grade 9 brings increased academic expectations. Students are challenged to strengthen study habits, manage assignments, think critically, communicate clearly, participate responsibly, and approach learning with maturity. At FCCA, academic responsibility is supported by caring teachers who know students personally and help them continue growing. The goal is not simply to complete high school coursework. The goal is to help students become thoughtful, disciplined, capable learners who are prepared for what comes next.

02

Preparation for the Next Educational Step

FCCA's high school expansion is designed to help students prepare confidently for their next stage of learning. Students are guided to develop the academic habits, personal discipline, communication skills, spiritual grounding, and leadership capacity they will need as they continue their educational journey. Whether students continue into future high school study, advanced academic opportunities, career exploration, ministry involvement, service, athletics, or other opportunities God opens, FCCA helps them take their next step with greater clarity, maturity, and confidence. This is not a rushed transition. It is intentional preparation.

03

Identity and Spiritual Maturity

High school is a season when students begin thinking more seriously about who they are becoming. At FCCA, students are reminded that their identity is not defined by comparison, pressure, performance, popularity, or uncertainty. Their identity is rooted in Christ. Students are encouraged to grow in spiritual maturity, personal conviction, integrity, discernment, and purpose. Faith becomes more than something they have been taught. It becomes something they are invited to live with courage, humility, and consistency.

04

Leadership With Purpose

In the Flourish stage, students are given opportunities to lead with greater maturity. Leadership may happen through service, athletics, classroom responsibility, chapel involvement, mentoring younger students, school culture, group projects, or personal example. Students learn that leadership is not about attention or position. It is about influence. It is about responsibility. It is about serving others well. At FCCA, students are encouraged to use their gifts to strengthen the community around them.

05

Character for Real Life

High school students need more than academic knowledge. They need wisdom. They need discipline. They need courage. They need compassion. They need resilience. At FCCA, students are guided to develop character in real moments: when expectations increase, when choices matter, when friendships require wisdom, when work becomes difficult, and when leadership requires humility.

They practice:

  • Integrity.
  • Responsibility.
  • Perseverance.
  • Discernment.
  • Compassion.
  • Humility.
  • Courage.
  • Service.
  • Self-control.
  • Accountability.

These are spiritual skills. They are also life skills.

06

Teacher Mentorship and Personal Connection

Students flourish when they are known. Because of FCCA's intentional approach, students have the opportunity to be seen, supported, and mentored by teachers who understand their strengths, challenges, and growth. Teacher connection matters deeply in these years. Students need adults who will encourage them, challenge them, pray for them, hold them accountable, and help them see what they are capable of becoming. At FCCA, students are not expected to flourish alone. They are guided by people who care.

Flourish Students Are Learning To

P Prepare Students develop the habits, maturity, academic readiness, and personal responsibility needed for their next educational step.
D Discern Students learn to think wisely about identity, friendships, choices, goals, opportunities, and future direction.
L Lead Students practice leadership through service, responsibility, influence, teamwork, mentorship, and personal example.
C Commit Students learn the value of discipline, follow-through, perseverance, faithfulness, and doing what is right even when it is difficult.
S Serve Students discover that their gifts are meant to bless others and that leadership rooted in Christ is expressed through service.
F Flourish Students grow in confidence, faith, purpose, and readiness as they prepare for the next step in their journey.

High School Rollout

The Flourish stage begins with Grade 9 in the 2026–2027 school year and is planned to expand to Grades 9 and 10 in the 2027–2028 school year.

School Year 2026–2027

Founding Grade 9 Cohort

Ninth grade marks the beginning of FCCA's high school journey. As the founding high school cohort, Grade 9 students will help shape the culture of this new stage while strengthening academic habits, responsibility, communication, spiritual ownership, leadership readiness, and confidence. This first cohort is expected to begin with approximately 12 students, creating a highly personal environment for teacher connection, student support, and leadership formation.

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School Year 2027–2028

Grades 9–10

Beginning in the 2027–2028 school year, FCCA plans to offer full-size classrooms for Grades 9 and 10, with the goal of approximately 22 students per grade level. Grade 10 will continue the Flourish stage by helping students deepen academic maturity, personal discipline, leadership, faith, and preparation for their next educational step.

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A Meaningful Step in a Larger Journey

At FCCA, the high school expansion is not presented as the end of a student's story. It is part of a larger calling. Students are prepared to continue their journey with confidence, whether that next step includes continued high school study, advanced academic opportunities, career exploration, ministry involvement, service, athletics, or other pathways God places before them. The goal is not simply to move students forward. The goal is to help them move forward rooted in faith, strengthened in character, prepared academically, and guided by purpose.

From Leadership to Flourishing

The Flourish stage builds on the foundation of the Lead stage. In Grades 6–8, students begin developing responsibility, spiritual ownership, communication, leadership, guided independence, and character. As they step into Grade 9, those skills continue to mature. Students are asked to think more deeply. Choose more wisely. Lead more intentionally. Study more responsibly. Serve more consistently. And prepare more confidently. FCCA helps students make that transition with support, structure, accountability, and care.